What if You Didn’t Struggle?

Recently, while sorting through my inbox an email caught my eye with the subject, “What if You Didn’t Struggle?”. Generally in the midst of a struggle we really don’t want to be there. But thinking back on my life, where I am now, and who I am today, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have a struggle. Often struggles are seen as something negative, but what I’ve found is that struggles are where we find our strength. Our human tendency is to gear towards comfort. But in the times that we don’t have it, we are left with a choice. Do we embrace the uncomfortable and embrace the pain and the struggle acknowledging the purpose and the strength and the beauty that can come from it, or do we resist and try to control the change.

Change is critical in your walk with God.If you are not changing and becoming more like Him, then you are not moving forward in the Kingdom. Without trials there is no change.Oftentimes people don’t change or submit to the change until the pain outweighs the fear. But difficult times are an invitation to grow.

James 1:2-4 says:

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (NIV)

Don’t complain about pain – there is a purpose in it. There is a strength. Praise God through the pain because it is a reminder that you can’t go through without Him.

“His power is made perfect in our weakness.” 2 Corinthians 10:4

God wants to show himself strong on our behalf. He is faithful and He is good and He is worthy of praise – no matter what our circumstances may be. Keep the faith. Hold to the promises and who God has shown Himself to be.

The question shouldn’t be, “what if you didn’t struggle?”

Instead, “What if you held on to the truth of who God is in the midst of your struggle?”

Be real about your pain, but be right about your perspective. Always embrace the truth of who God is and who He says He is.

About Brittany Lee Ketter

I am a writer, speaker and abolitionist who is passionately in love with Jesus. I carry the purpose God placed on my life to bring the broken to restoration and to a recognition of redemption, and also to raise up a generation of women who are healed, healthy and wholeheartedly devoted to God and to His plans and purposes for their lives.

One Response to What if You Didn’t Struggle?

There is no real way to prepare for the struggles the Lord permits in our lives EXCEPT to be in the Word and in prayer consistently. We need to be able to hear His voice during these times. The Word that the Lord gave me for this year is “Peace”. At first , I said “Yes!”…..then I realized that His peace comes right smack in the middle of a trial, IF we remain in Him. My joy won’t come from the trial but will come from the peace if I only yield to His will and not fight it.